Police In Bridgeport Investigate Homicide

November 15, 1993

BRIDGEPORT — Police arrested a Bridgeport woman on a murder charge Sunday after her boyfriend was found dead with a gunshot wound in the head late Saturday.

Police were called about 9:40 p.m. to an apartment at 557 Arctic St., where they found Jessie Heyward, 54, lying on his living-room floor with a gunshot wound in his forehead. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Bridgeport Hospital.

On Sunday afternoon, police picked up Heyward's girlfriend, Barbara McClain, 32, who was living at the Arctic Street address, on two outstanding warrants accusing her of probation violations. During questioning, McClain confessed to shooting Heyward during a domestic dispute, said Sgt. James Tyler.